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Re: What is glibc-ports?


On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
> For me this boils down to first and second-class ports. For example we
> removed ia64 from glibc since nobody cared and only now somebody
> volunteered to add it to ports...
>
> But the status of architectures might change over time, sparc has not seen
> many updates in the past but recently Dave Miller has done a great job of
> updating it.
>
> For me, the whole separation is artificial and seems to also come from a
> feeling of not trusting the port maintainers and thus pushing them out.
>
> If we merge them, IMO we should have first a discussion what
> architectures/triplets are release critical and which ones are not - and
> how to define that.

That's an excellent point! I absolutely agree.

Cheers,
Carlos.


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